The supreme law of the Church is the salvation of souls. As such, throughout its
history, the Church has always found the pastoral and juridical means to care
for the good of the faithful.

With the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, promulgated on 4
November 2009, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, provided for the
establishment of Personal Ordinariates through which Anglican faithful may
enter, even in a corporate manner, into full communion with the Catholic Church[1].
On that same date, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published
Complementary Norms relating to such Ordinariates[2].

In conformity with what is established in Art. I § 1 and § 2 of the Apostolic
Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, having received requests from a
considerable number of Anglican faithful, and having consulted with the
Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith

ERECTS

the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham within the territory of the
Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.

1. The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ipso iure
possesses juridic personality and is juridically equivalent to a diocese[3].
It includes those faithful, of every category and state of life, who, originally
having belonged to the Anglican Communion, are now in full communion with the
Catholic Church, or who have received the sacraments of initiation within the
jurisdiction of the Ordinariate itself[4],
or who are received into it because they are part of a family belonging to the
Ordinariate[5].

2. The faithful of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
are entrusted to the pastoral care of the Personal Ordinary who, once named by
the Roman Pontiff[6], possesses all
the faculties, and is held to all the obligations, specified in the Apostolic
Constitution Anglicanorum Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus
and the Complementary Norms[7]as well as in those matters determined subsequently by the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith, on request both of the Ordinary, having heard the
Governing Council of the Ordinariate, and of the Episcopal Conference of England
and Wales.

3. The Anglican faithful who wish to be received into full communion
with the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate must manifest this desire in
writing[8]. There is to be a
programme of catechetical formation for these faithful, lasting for a congruent
time, and with content established by the Ordinary in agreement with the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith so that the faithful are able to
adhere fully to the doctrinal content of the Catechism of the Catholic Church[9],
and therefore, make the profession of faith.

4. For candidates for ordination, who previously were ministers in the
Anglican Communion, there is to be a specific programme of theological
formation, as well as spiritual and pastoral preparation, prior to ordination in
the Catholic Church, according to what will be established by the Ordinary in
agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in
consultation with the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.

5. For a cleric not incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady
of Walsingham to assist at a marriage of the faithful belonging to the
Ordinariate, he must receive the faculty from the Ordinary or the pastor of the
personal parish to which the faithful belong[10].

6. The Ordinary is a member by right of the Episcopal Conference of
England and Wales, with deliberative vote in those cases in which this is
required in law[11].

7. A cleric, having come originally from the Anglican Communion, who has
already been ordained in the Catholic Church and incardinated in a Diocese, is
able to be incardinated in the Ordinariate in accord with the norm of can. 267
CIC.

8. Until the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham may have
established its own Tribunal, the judicial cases of its faithful are referred to
the Tribunal of the Diocese in which one of the parties has a domicile, while
taking into account, however, the different titles of competence established in
cann. 1408-1414 and 1673 CIC[12].

9. The faithful of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
who are, temporarily or permanently, outside the territory of the Episcopal
Conference of England and Wales, while remaining members of the Ordinariate, are
bound by universal law and those particular laws of the territory where they
find themselves[13].

10. If a member of the faithful moves permanently into a place where
another Personal Ordinariate has been erected, he is able, on his own request,
to be received into it. The new Ordinary is bound to inform the original
Personal Ordinariate of the reception. If a member of the faithful wishes to
leave the Ordinariate, he must make such a decision known to his own Ordinary.
He automatically becomes a member of the Diocese where he resides. In this
case, the Ordinary will ensure that the Diocesan Bishop is informed.

11. The Ordinary, keeping in mind the Ratio fundamentalis institutionis
sacerdotalis and the Programme of Priestly Formation of the Episcopal
Conference of England and Wales, is to prepare a Programme of Priestly
Formation for the seminarians of the Ordinariate which must be approved by
the Apostolic See[14].

12. The Ordinary will ensure that the Statutes of the Governing Council
and the Pastoral Council, which are subject to his approval, are drawn up[15].

13. The location of the principal Church of the Personal Ordinariate of
Our Lady of Walsingham will be determined by the Ordinary in agreement with the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in consultation with the
Episcopal Conference of England and Wales. Likewise, the Seat of the
Ordinariate, where the register referred to in Art. 5 § 1 of the
Complementary Norms will be kept, will be determined in the same way.

14. The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has as its patron
Blessed John Henry Newman.

Everything to the contrary notwithstanding.

Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 15
January 2011